Strip-applying machine.



No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE. STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEEN-SHEET 1.

PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY '7, 1907. H; E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

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No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

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HARRY E. BODINE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN UNITED STATES SAMPLE BOOKCOMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF'PENNSYLVANIA.I

. STRIP-APPLYING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

lates particularly to the construction and arrangement of such a machinefor said purposes.

The principal objects of my invention are first, to rovide a machine forjoining sheets of cardoard or other similar material with tape or stri sof muslin or linen for the purpose of bin ing the same; second, toprovide a machine for such pur ose, with a reciprocating feed table tofee the. sheets of cardboard or the like to mechanism for applyingfillets of tape or narrow strips to either or both sides thereof; third,to provide a machine with mechanism to guide the tape or strips and toress the same onto the cardboard or the h ke and against each other;fourth, to provide a machine with an interchangeable gear-mechanism toregulate the speed of feed and pressure rollers with respect to thetable; and fifth, to provide the pressure rollers with a yieldingcovering to end the strips or tapes over the edges of the paper and tounite the same with each other in the space between the-sheets and alsoto impart'to the pressure rollers a slight increase in circumferentialspeed over the feed rollers so as to board or the like forward againstthe tension of the feed rollers.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood fromthe following description taken in connection with the ac companyingdrawings forming part hereof,

in which Figure 1, is a diagrammatic view,"illustrating artly in sideelevation and partly in vertica section :the feed table and receivingtable for the sheets of cardboard or the like, the feed and ressurerollers interposed between the tab es, the means for conducting tape orstripsof muslin or linen to the under and upper sides of the sheets andto the feed ull or force the sheets of cardrollers, and means formoistening an adhesive coating of the strips or tapes prior to theirapplication to the sheets, all embodying main features of my presentinvention. Fig. 2, is a view, illustrating partly in side elevation andpartly in section of the machine for applying binding strips tocardboard or the like, certain parts being removed therefrom. Fig. 3, isa detail view, illustrating in side elevation the gear-mechanism foractuating the feed and pressure rollers and the gear for regulating thespeed of the rollers. Fig. 4, is a top or lan view of the machine shownin Fig. 2. ig. 5, is a detail view enlarged, illustrating in t6 or planview two sheets of card-board joined by strips of flexible material fromopposite sides, one of the strips being shown as partly removed from thesheets; and Fig. 6, is a similar view, illustrating partly in elevationand partly in section the pressure rollers, two sheets of card-board andstrips passing between the same and the manner of bending the stripsover the edges of the sheets and uniting the strips to each otherbetween the same, by the yielding covering of the rollers.

Refer ing to the drawings, (it, represents the standard of the machine,upon which is arranged a table 1), adapted to receive and to feed in aforward direction in the present instance, sheets of card-board c, to bejoined together. In order to hold the sheets of card-board c, a certaindistance apart, from each other, and in a certain position, on the tableI), the same is provided with an aliningbar (1, and gage-arms'd and (1against which the sheets of pa er 0, are placed by hand or machinery, ass own by dotted lines inFig. 4. The gage-arms d and (1 are adjustablysecured to the table 5, by means of bolts d which are slidably arrangedin grooves d of the table. Sheets of card-board of varying sizes canthus be readily alined on the table I), with the aid of the gage-arms dand 01 and bar (1, which can be replaced by another alining-bar, if thespace between the sheets a, is to be increased or decreased. Thepreferred means for reciprocating the table 7), on the standard (it,consists of a bell-crank lever e, pivotally secured in the point 6 tothe standard a, which lever at one end is engaged by a cam 6 secured toa shaft 6 and at its other end abuts against a bracket (i SYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR To THE:

1o integral with the standar 25 nected with a bracket 11,

to. be presently described.

3 lower pressure roller 9,

55 rollers f andf.

65 the weight of the upper rollerf,

secured to the table I), as shown in Fig. 2. During the rotation of theshaft (3, the cam e thereof, shifts the table I), from right to left inFig. 2, by which movement the end of the 5 sheets a, of card-boardprojecting beyond the table I), are brought into engagement with feedrollers f and f 1 and. by the same into engagement with pressure rollersg and 9 mounted in brac ets (1. referably formed d a. A spring (1,

connected by a hook d", to the table (1, and by a bolt to the standarda, serves to return the table to its inoperative )osition. The shaftc,by means of gear-wheels e and 1 5 e, such as are indicated by dash anddotted lines in Fig. 2, is connected with the driving shaft h, and isthus rotated by the same. The shaft h, b means of a pulley I1 is drivenby any suita )le source of power, not shown, and

serves to rotate the rollers f and g, with variable speed by thefollowing preferred gear-mechanism:As shown in Pig. 3, to the shaft e issecured a gear-wheel e, which meshes with a gear-wheel i, removably coniwhich ispivotally mounted on the shaft e. The bracket i, is )rovidedwith a slotted extension 2", which by means of a bolt t, is adjustablysecured to a boss a, of the standard a, for a purpose The gear i, mesheswith a gear wheel f secured to the lower feed-roller f which by means ofa gear- Wheel f, secured thereto and an idler gearwheelf, meshing with agear-wheel g of the transmits its rotary movement thereto. The upperfeed rollerf, and )ressure roller g,are rotated by frictional contactfrom the lower positively driven feed roller 7', and pressure roller 1or by the sheets 0, 0i card-board fed forward by the lowerrollers, stoodfrom Fi 2.

The feed roilers f and f, also serve to conduct strips 7c and 7c, offlexible material, such as will be readily underas muslin or linento thesheets 6, and to apply the same from either or both sides to oin orconnect the sheets 0, with each other in. the manner shown in Fig. 5. Asshown in Fig. 1, each of the strips It and 7c, is wound upon .50 a reelZ, from which the same by means of guide rollers Z and Z, is conductedover a roller m, arranged in a tank m, filled with water, which moistensthe adhesive coating :of the strips prior to theilaeonduct to the feedThe guide rollers Z, are preferably carried by a bar I, secured to thebracket at, the sheets 0, of card-board are brought into contact ,withthe feed rollers f and f, the

same are engaged by the rollers and fed forward bythe same. Themoistened strips 7:.- and k, which are conducted over projections f", ofthe rollers and f, are applied and forced by the same against the sheets0, by and are bent other material such rollers, the

as shown in Fig. 4. As soon as 'adapted to hold der tension during theapplication of said as at 0, over the edgesof the card-board and unltedwith each other as at in the between the boards by the. yieldingcovering g, of the pressure rollers g and g, by passing through thesame, as shown in Fig. (i. In order to hold the sheets 0, of card-boardunder proper tension during the passage of the same through the feedrollers f and f, and pressure rollers g and g and during the applicationof the strips k and 7c thereto, the yielding covering 9", of thepressure rollers g and g, is of slightly greater diameter than theprojcctionsf", of the feed rollers f and f Thus the circumferentialspeed of the pressure rollersg and g, is increased which tends to'pullor forcethe sheets 0, of card-board forward against the tension of thefeed. rollersf and f, and in this manner effectually prevents bucklingof the sheets by holding the same under proper tension during theirpassage between the rollers'. The sheets 0, leaving the rollers areconducted by the same. over a receiving table a, placed in front of thepressure rollers g and g, on which the strips It and it, between twosets of joined sheets are cut to disconnect the same from each other byany suitable cutting or severing means, not shown, as will be readilyunderstood from Fig. 5, of the drawings.

Instead of providing the strips and Ir, with an adhesive. coating priorto applying to the card-board, such strips may be supplied with anadhesive from the tank 771., by means of the rollers m. Instead ofcard-board any as wood or leather may be joined or connected by means ofthe strips k and 1c.

Having thus described the nature and Ol)". jects of my invention, what Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machineof the character described, a table for receiving and supportingmaterial to be. joined, a plurality of feed and pressure rollers, meansfor conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feed rollers andmeans for reciprocating said table to con duct the material to said feedrollers and between the strips; said feed rollers adapted to conductsaid material and strips to said pressure rollers.

2. In a machine of the character described,

a table for'recciving and supporting material to be joined, a pluralityof feed and pressure diameters of said pressure rollers being greaterthan the diameters of said feed rollers, means for conducting flexibleadhesive coated strips to said feed rollers and means for reciprocatingsaid table to conduct said material to said feed rollers and betweensaid strips; said feed rollers adapted to conduct said material andstrips to said pressure rollers and said pressure rollers said stripsand material unstrips to said material.

space I ICS 3. In a machine of the character described, a table-forreceiving and supporting material to be joined, a plurality of feed andpressure rollers, the diameters of said pressure rollers being greaterthan the diameters of said feed rollers, means for conducting flexibleadhesive coated strips to said feed rollers, means under tension duringthe application of said strips to said material.

. 4. In a machine of the character described, a table for receiving andsupporting material to be joined, a set of superposed feed rollers and aset of superposed pressure rollers, the diameters of said pressurrollers being greater than the diameters of said feed rollers,

means for rotating certain of said feed and pressure ,rollers, means forconducting llexi be joined, means carried by said table for holding thesame a'certain distance apart and to aline the sheets with respect toeach other, a set of superposed feed rollers and a set of su erposedpressure rollers, said pressure ro lers provided with yieldingcoverings, means for rotating certain of said feed and pressure rollers,means for conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feedrollers and means for reciprocating said table to conduct said sheets tosaid feed rollers and between said strips; said feed rollers adapted toapply said strips to said sheets and to conduct the same to saidpressure rollers and the latter adapted to hold said strips and sheetsunder tension and to bring said stripsinto engagement with each otherbetween said sheets by the yielding of theeoverings of said pressurerollers.

6. In a machine of the character described, the combination of asuitable frame, a bed, means to reciprocate said bed lengthwise of themachine, a gage strip located in the center of the bed, a sheet-engagingdevice adjustably secured to the bed, a series of pressure rolls andmeans for supplying two flexible strips to said rolls, whereby thestrips will be applied to sheets fed to the bed, substantially asdescribed.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo subscribing wi'tnesses.

HARRY E. BODINE. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH.

